I believe you first heard about the legends of gods and ghosts when you were a child from stories told by adults.

In psychology, there is a theory that some of the terrifying fantasies sometimes produced by people with mental disorders come from the awe and imagination of primitive ancestors for gods and ghosts.

Let's not go back so far.

But the legend of gods and ghosts does play a non-negligible role in the formation of mental illness.

Because some people with mental illness are initially frightened by so-called "ghosts" and induce the disease. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But don't think that this is a new insight, and it's not a rambling search for superficial triggers that take on various forms.

In fact, this is not the original intention of deep psychology, or even the opposite.

The deep psyche is only the reduction of all the various forms of disease to the simplest of universal instincts.

Being keen on various forms of discussion can only distract people's mental energy.

However, it is also unreasonable to pursue only generality, and it will make people lose their sense of reality and concreteness.

The reason why "ghosts and gods" are listed separately is only the result of the natural growth of psychological analysis.

A memory that is closer to the source.

So, even if you suddenly jump from psychology to the topic of ghosts and gods, the two are closely related.

It's not out of bounds.

It's just that this correlation is too secretive and not in-depth and detailed, and it is impossible to discover it at all.

Specifically, there is a subtle connection between ghosts and spirits and the compromise mechanism that has been emphasized many times before.

At first glance, it sounded like a foggy cloud and a mountain of fog, unreasonable.

Putting ghosts and compromises together, the first impression is far-fetched.

It's like putting dirty and fear together at the beginning, it always feels stiff.

It was only later with the key meaning of "breathing" that the two were closely linked.

In the same way, there is a key point between ghosts and compromise that unites the two.

This key point is not obvious, but it is not difficult to find.

Do you remember the example of "closing your eyes and hiding from dirty water" in the previous psychological analysis?

This example is that when a person is faced with dirty water, he will close his eyes and run away at the most critical moment.

It's a bit like the idiom allusion to "covering your ears and stealing the bell".

When he opens his eyes, the subconscious escape mechanism thinks that he is not dirty.

In fact, it is numb in the "dirty".

Only when something clean stimulates the memory of what he once was clean, "clean" and "dirty" will be inspired to become a pair of ego conflicts; Form a "compulsion".

Similarly, the compromise mechanism described in the later psychoanalysis is similar to this, as shown in the following example:

The crowd from the outside world suddenly broke into S's house, threatening his mother, and being stopped by some kind of accident that prevented his instinctive ability to resist, which would distract him from his love and security for his mother extremely secretly. Invisibly transferred to those 'intruders'. The love and security that caused him to be scattered in the future must be constantly proven and recognized by others before he can get it. This mechanism is actually not difficult to understand. It's like a person who was originally very brave, but because of an accident, his natural courage was hindered. So there was a compromise with the person who violated his mother. As if begging for mercy and saying, "Please don't hurt my mother, we are so pitiful......" This kind of compromise seems normal in daily life, when the weak meet the strong. But the patient's degree of compromise is far beyond ordinary people, and this compromise is the most primitive compromise for him. So, it was originally with deep love for my mother and the courage to protect her. All of a sudden, it became a compromise. Personality is invisibly biased in favor of the "aggressor" rather than against the "aggressor". Therefore, his love and courage will also turn from his mother to his 'aggressor', from unintentional to intentional. In the future, you must continue to be proven and recognized by others, so that you can get love and security. If he is asked to fight against the strong in the future, it will be extremely nervous and fearful. Because part of his personality has already compromised and adhered to the other person.

(Figuratively speaking: it's the previous example of "closing your eyes and hiding from dirty water".) To fight against the strong, first of all, is to fight against yourself. It is a confirmation of a common saying: grow the ambition of others, destroy your own prestige. He will think too much about the strength of the other person and absorb it as part of himself. The result: the other side is almost fatally invincible; Their own resistance is too small; Almost doomed; There is no point in confronting someone else. Therefore, if a person wants to have the strength to fight against the strong, it is best to calm himself down completely, to return to the moment when he first met his mother, without any hints from the outside world, whether it is pity, admiration or intimidation.

Because these external voices have a certain vague connection with the mysterious factors that hinder S's instinctive resistance in the "accidental events" that I have emphasized many times before. Such a thorough description.

Do you think that the so-called "ghost body" is not the same as this compromise mechanism?

The "ghost" is nothing more than the "aggressor" whose instinctive resistance was unexpectedly suppressed and failed to resist, resulting in a compromise into their personality, making him and the personality of the "aggressor" a state of stalemate or adhesion.

It's just that people's "ghost stories" have cast a more mysterious layer on this stalemate.

It can be seen from this that the victim with delusional disorder is afraid of what it is.

Their self-monitoring is so powerful that the phrase "if you don't know, you can't do anything about it" is enough to keep their actions and thoughts in check.

For people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The suggestive effect of ghost stories can often directly induce their obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

For example, there was a patient who had compulsive aggression that was triggered by watching a ghost story.

The ghost in the story is a vengeful ghost.

It's just that the stories he heard from adults as a child similar to "ghosts on the body" induced his subconscious memories that his personality was once attached to the "aggressor".

For people with depression, the effects of ghosts are not as intuitive as those with OCD.

But they have a real first memory: as a child, he thought that if ghosts and gods really existed, all his beliefs would be subverted, and he would form a completely strange and hopeless idea.

And when depression first happens, it is precisely this feeling of complete collapse of faith.

Speaking of which, it is back to the "compromise" mechanism.

Because of compromise, personality is like a gelatinous substance, "sticking" to someone else's personality.

Because of "adhesion", it will be extremely sensitive to "ghost upper body".

The final conclusion is that the unexpected compromise is the initial tipping point between health and sickness.

In other words: sensitivity to the legend of ghosts and gods is the initial tipping point. The S man once faced a sudden "intruder" at home, and only had a hazy memory, and he couldn't tell whether it was a person or a ghost.

Although psychologically and objectively he can be sure that he is a human being, he was this vague memory at that time.

Because of this initial tipping point, he sometimes had the peculiar idea that when he was afraid to face people in society, the thought of the existence of ghosts and gods could dilute this social fear.

On the other hand, when he is afraid of ghosts and gods, as long as he feels the lively atmosphere of the crowd, he will dilute this fear. -- This is also the most common.

But most people don't use ghosts and gods to dilute their fear of people.

Behind the 'ghost story' is that he only focuses on his mother's love and faith.

Only then will he not easily listen to the "nonsense" of others and become afraid.

The reason why the "compromise" mechanism is redescribed by the term "ghosts".

It's just an inside-out job.

It's like after countless efforts, I finally shattered a "stubborn stone" that pressed the beautiful jade, and there is also a job to gently sweep away the dust.

Here, there is a dream about "ghosts", which may more intuitively describe this fear.

In an unusually chaotic dream, the dreamer (specifically the S man) dreams that he has betrayed his faithful girlfriend and is entangled with another girl.

And this betrayal seems to have something to do with the work of a ghost.

At first, he was terrified of the goblin.

However, when he saw his girlfriend in great pain, helplessness and forbearance for the betrayal of his love, his heart suddenly became very brave, and a powerful masculine force was generated to smash the "ghost" to pieces; The fear vanished.

When he woke up, he felt that he no longer had the shadow of fear of "ghosts".

And before that, he would have an inexplicable fear of a quiet environment.

This dream is similar to the "heartbeat sound in a dream" mentioned earlier.

It's all because of his girlfriend's love, or by extension, "maternal love", that he was threatened by the outside world again, and awakened his instinct to protect his mother that he had failed to play normally due to accidental accidents. -- This can also be found in this "ghost" dream.

In this "ghostly" dream, there is another extremely obscure fragment: he dreamed that he and his father were sitting in an audience that resembled a party.

The host drew a lottery on it and drew him.

When he was about to go on stage, his father stuffed him with a few lottery tickets, as if to ask him to "fool around" and take the lottery tickets that did not win the prize to receive the prize.

He indignantly refused.

Because he felt that he was taking advantage of others, and he didn't need it at all.

He was forced by his father's authority to do so.

Then he went on stage to accept the award, and when he looked around at the female audience, he had a secret vanity, as if he was showing them how handsome he was.

After that, he dreamed of "ghosts" and the like......

No matter how you look at it, these two episodes in the dream are absurd and unrelated.

Only by carefully understanding the previous example of S man can we understand: S resisted entering the school because he was frightened at school; Because of the oppression of his father's authority, he had to enter the school; Instinctive resistance is suppressed, and it leads to the opposite pathology—over-compromising with the teacher, not even daring to ask for a bowel movement.

When he became an adult, he was too pandering and compromising to others, and he always felt that he owed them something.

So in the dream, his instinctive resistance reappeared - unwilling to obey his father's authority, "a fish-eyed pearl"; Because he doesn't want to owe anyone at all, and he doesn't want to compromise with someone else.

And after the school fright, he experienced a "change" at home. The sudden aggression of outsiders on his "mother", his instinctive resistance is unexpectedly blocked, and he has a vague hallucination of fear - those people are like some "ghosts".

The instincts are thwarted, which leads him to compromise with the "aggressors", and the result of the compromise is to imitate them, and if they are flowery, he will also become like that.

Originally, it was only with simple "love", but because of compromise, it was destroyed and scattered, and it became necessary to constantly prove to women the ability and advantages of love.

So, in his dreams he would show off his appearance to a female audience.

"Goblins" are those "aggressors".

Because of the "girlfriend", it can be extended to the "mother" who was indirectly injured by the "aggressor" again, and evoked his once simple emotions, rather than the "flower heart" of "seeing different thoughts"; Instinctive resistance reappears and breaks through the shadow of the "ghost". -- It's a process of going back in memory.

That's why when people watch horror movies, the most terrifying thing is that the object of fear is actually the closest person around them.

That's it!

Because in the distant past, the moment when the loved one was associated with the "fear event", it was unexpectedly transferred by the outside world's "excessive sympathy" and "excessive exaggeration of fear", and a kind of compromise was obtained.

Forgetting the instinct to "resist fear" at that moment, leading to a personality that withdraws later, relying heavily on external conditions, and even leading to mental illness.

"The object of fear turned out to be the closest person around him", that is, the subconscious evokes relatives and "fear events", stimulates his instinct to resist at that time, and does not transfer to the outside world.

That's what this dream means.

If you are meticulous enough, you will also understand: people are burnout, bored, empty, and sluggish...... Tends to occur during the day; Fear often occurs in the "night" (by extension, "spirits"). It is because of the excessive rejection and escape of the night, longing for the dawn. As a result, the excessive "absorption" of strong light during the day, the loss of "hazy feeling" (also known as a sense of security), the loss of curiosity and exploration of things, the suppression of oneself, resulting in all kinds of tiredness and discomfort.

Please forgive such a tedious, subtle, and complex analysis process, which may make you feel the clouds and fog at first.

But compared to people who desperately believe that mental illness is incurable and unintelligible, it is necessary to go so deep to match their despair. (To be continued.) )